"Where Is the Bawdy?: Falstaffian Politics in Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc464/
Author:
	Protic, Nemanja.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2013
Publication Information:
	Literature/Film Quarterly 41, no.  2 (2013): 184–96.
Annotation:
	Compares Orson Welles's adaptation of 1 and 2 Henry IV in Chimes at Midnight (q.v.) to Gus Van Sant's transformation of the same plays in My Own Private Idaho (q.v.), finding that Welles sees Falstaff as both a utopian ideal from a mythic past and a bawdy figure who embodies the grotesque-carnivalesque aesthetic and thereby represents a future-oriented remedy to the realities of market-driven culture, while Van Sant insists upon the impossibility of recovering the utopian past and drains Falstaff's bawdy words of their carnivalesque energy, which prevents the film's Falstaffian politics from appearing to be any sort of guide to a better future.
Language:
	English
Cross-References:
	Van Sant, My Own Private Idaho
	Welles, Chimes at Midnight
Persons:
	Welles, Orson; Van Sant, Gus
Keywords:
	Falstaff; utopia; bawdry; grotesque; carnivalesque; politics
Tags:
	1 & 2 Henry IV, Film, Cinema, Television, Radio, Productions
WSB Update:
	Fall 2013
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc464